Well, you can't have BOTH!!! More SPEED = FLATTER TRAJECTORY. Try the STS by MeanV (Dan), and you should be pleasantly surprised. I just slid a USED STS on my Highlander, and it made it feel as nice as my Trykon to shoot. Being a parallel limb bow, in comparison to the old PSE you shot, that BEAR ought to be like comparing a Cadillac to a Yugo. As far as noise goes, especially with Drop-Aways, sometimes it seems there isn't a perfect way to ELIMINATE all of if, you only muffled it enough that you're happy with it. Which is part of the reason I'm tinkering around with a couple of prong rests right now.